Recruit’s mom forges son’s signature on Ole Miss LOI

Posted by John Taylor on February 2, 2011, 5:01 PM EST

No, seriously. She did.

In what is one of the more bizarre stories you’ll hear any day of the year let alone signing day, the mother of a football recruit who really, really wanted her son to attend Ole Miss really, really forged the name “Floyd Raven” on a National Letter of Intent. David Brandt of the Associated Presstweeted the following in the midst of Houston Nutt‘s signing day press conference:

Ole Miss had received a signed LOI from “Raven”, a defensive back out of Louisiana, this morning but refused to accept it. By way of Kyle Veazey of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Nutt explained why it was refused, although he didn’t use the word “forged” in his description.

“His mom. Mom really wanted him here, David,” UM coach Houston Nutt said to Brandt. “Mom wanted him here in the worst way. And so, (UM compliance director) David (Wells is) our expert on that, so the bottom line is when they told us that we said ‘Hey, look, I want you to be here because you really want to be here.’ And he was so torn. It’s really hard, it’s a hard hard decision, but when mom told me that, “Hey, look, I want you to do what’s in your heart. And I think at the time he wanted to go elsewhere and look, I want them to want to be here.”

So, again, a mother forged her son’s signature and faxed it to a school.

Some days, I have little doubt that the Mayans are correct on their prediction. This is one of them.

I guess they checked it against the check that they wrote to him and he cashed.

burntorangehorn says:Feb 2, 2011 5:48 PM

Nicely done, edgy. A check endorsement joke made me chuckle.

1990tiger says:Feb 2, 2011 6:02 PM

She makes Cecil Newton look like a saint.

drexelvol says:Feb 2, 2011 6:37 PM

Sounds like fraud to me. Any charges pending?

inconsonance says:Feb 2, 2011 7:59 PM

Yeah, because our already overburdened legal system should really toss a woman into prison over a forged signature on a college football letter of intent. Forget the real criminals – this fuckin’ bitch has to pay! SEC! SEC! SEC!